The first saying on the cross.

                                                   First saying on the cross

Luke 23:34 -Jesus said ,"Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing"

    This was the first saying on the cross of calvary , after Jesus was crucified, for absolutely no crime He committed.This saying has a profound meaning.


    The first thing Jesus did after being crucified was, fulfill the purpose that God had sent Him for, and that is , forgiveness of the sins of the whole humanity through His own blood . He asked God to forgive those people , who had nearly bruised Him to death, all those people who mocked Him, all those people who refused to believe that He is the son of God, all those people who nailed Him on that cross. That is one dimension of it.Because , in reality, it's not  just those people who crucified Him.. and all the bystanders who mocked at Him the other day . It's all of us .. all of us humans who hurt Him.. all of us who disobey.. all of us  who still  do not believe He is the son of God.


    The word 'them' ,stands for  every single human who ever was , is, and is to come .
And  the rest of the statement is in present-continuous tense.. and not in past tense. So, it implies to us today as well. The sin we commit today , has already been asked forgiveness for on the cross.


    When in even the slightest of pain , we grumble and we're cranky cause it hurts. We  only wanna be pampered an taken care of.  And forget about forgiving the one who hurt us , we don't wanna see their faces ever again.  We make sure they realize how much pain they've caused.. and after the pain is long gone , we want to  flaunt those scars around , reminding them that they hurt us once. Sometimes , we even wanna give it back to them , by doing something even worse . Well, the only justification for all that we do would be 'we are human' but sadly , that 's no justification at all . Jesus was very much  a human when he was nailed on that cross. He was very much in excruciating pain. He was exhausted. He had every right to keep defending himself because He hadn't done anything wrong. But he chose to ask forgiveness for us instead. He forgave us first , and then asked his heavenly Father to forgive us too.


    And so , the pain and agony of Jesus doesn't end here. As we sin now , we nail Him back to that cross once again. And once again He reminds us that He said, "Father forgive them , for they do not know what they are doing"